The Brook Kerith http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12821/12821-h/12821-h.htm, ch. 11 (1916).
“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.”
“I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.”
http://uzomediangr.com/tag/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-quotes, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Art
Variant: Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
Source: Emerson's Essays
Context: Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. The best of beauty is a finer charm than skill in surfaces, in outlines, or rules of art can ever teach, namely, a radiation from the work of art of human character, — a wonderful expression through stone, or canvas, or musical sound, of the deepest and simplest attributes of our nature, and therefore most intelligible at last to those souls which have these attributes.
“Nevertheless I long—I pine, all my days—
to travel home and see the dawn of my return.”
V. 219–220 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
